[rescue] Sun Sparcstation IPC (water-damaged) - $20

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
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" > [...] Sparcstation IPC [...]
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" >> Includes a quad ethernet card (can't remember if it's 10/100 or not)
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" It could be either.  The qec was quad qe (10-only), the qfe was a quad
" fe (I forget whether that's 100-only or 10/100).
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" > A quad NIC in an IPC?  Aside from being a proof of concept/test bed
" > could it handle any real traffic on multiple ports?
" 
" Yes, for IPC-era values of "real traffic".  Probably not today, in an
" age when anything less than gigabit is considered slow.

when i was at sun many many moons ago [early '90s], they were using
sparc-1s for routers.  i was told they could handle traffic at wire
speed on 10Mb ethernet.

iirc the qfe is 4 happy meals, so should be 10/100.
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